Agromin will recycle between 50,000 and 60,000 Christmas
trees this season. Agromin begins receiving unsold trees from Christmas tree
lots even before Christmas. After Christmas, residential trees are collected
and dropped off at Agromin’s Oxnard recycling facility by various local waste
haulers.

Photo: Ventura County Star

The trees will be cleaned of any tinsel and ornaments,
chopped and then laid out in giant composting rows, eventually finding their
way to local farms and into consumer and commercial products in the form of
mulch. In as little as 60 days, trees go from being the center of holiday
festivities to mulch used on farmland, roadside landscapes and in backyard
gardens. Everything is recycled. This process is an excellent example of what
communities are doing to close the "recycling loop."